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When Connection Stops Being a Label and Becomes an Architecture       For decades, the Western emotional imaginary has reduced human relationships to an apparently clear dichotomy: friendship or romance. Under this logic, emotional life is organized around a relatively stable narrative: desire leads to attraction, attraction leads to falling in love, and falling in love leads to partnership. Yet at the margins — and increasingly at the center as well — forms of connection are emerging that challenge this simplification. The asexual (ace) and aromantic (aro) spectrums not only question the cultural centrality of sexual and romantic desire, but also introduce a far more complex and philosophically intriguing possibility: that love may not be a single, unified category, but rather a shifting assemblage of intimacies, affinities, and forms of connection.   From this perspective, many human relationships no longer fit comfortably within traditional frameworks. There are e...

Between identity, experience, and necessity: asexuality facing the mirror of the queer umbrella. Is asexuality just another form of dissent within the LGBT spectrum, or a territory of its own that needs no shelter? This text explores an intimate experience shaped by confusion, trial and error, to propose an uncomfortable answer: perhaps belonging is not a matter of definition, but of personal usefulness.   I   An eternal debate with no answer… or perhaps we already know it, but don’t want to admit it.   In any case, I will try to share my personal view on the matter; a view that, I must admit, had been delayed for a long time, lying in wait in my mind, waiting for the right moment to reveal itself.   First of all, I want to make it clear that, regardless of my personal position, I have nothing for or against anyone in this regard. I believe everyone is free to label themselves as they wish, as long as the decision comes from serious reflection and, above all, if thos...